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- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Sioux City Community Theatre [Sioux City] (Q27412) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +465 Sioux City Community Theatre [Sioux City] (Q27412) Created claim: Note (P44): Built as Shore Acres Ballroom. Since 1966 used as Sioux City Community Theatre., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Peavey Grand Opera House [Sioux City] (Q27411) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +492 Peavey Grand Opera House [Sioux City] (Q27411) Created claim: Note (P44): Opened 1888 as Peavey Grand Opera House, also known as Grand Theatre. Closed 1919 due to safety concerns., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre [St. Louis] (Q26455) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +605 St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre [St. Louis] (Q26455) Created claim: Note (P44): First open-air theatre performances at the site ca. 1914. Open-air theatre built 1917. From 1919 named St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre. Ca. 11000 seats. Also known as The Muny. Used for an annual summer opera season., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Fox Theatre [St. Louis] (Q12514) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +559 Fox Theatre [St. Louis] (Q12514) Created claim: Note (P44): Cinema, built 1929 by Charles H. Crane. Also used as a music venue. 1981 major renovation. Re-opened 1981 as a live theatre and music venue. Also known as The Fabulous Fox., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 RKO Temple Theatre [Rochester] (Q27294) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +605 RKO Temple Theatre [Rochester] (Q27294) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1907 by Leon H. Lempert & Son for James H. Moore. Opened 6 Dec 1907 as a vaudeville theatre. Later converted to a cinema. Renamed RKO Temple Theatre. Closed 7 May 1951. Demolished 1952 in favour of a parking lot., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Lyceum Theater [Rochester] (Q27293) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +450 Lyceum Theater [Rochester] (Q27293) Created claim: Note (P44): Opened 1888. Closed 1934. Demolished in favour of a parking lot., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Eastman Theatre [Rochester] (Q26010) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:31, 11 September 2025 diff hist +735 Eastman Theatre [Rochester] (Q26010) Created claim: Note (P44): Opened 4 Sep 1922. Named after the industrialist George Eastman (1854-1932) who funded the building. Used as concert hall of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and as a cinema. 2002 renovations and rebuilding. Originally 3372 seats, now 2260 seats. Home to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Eastman Opera Theatre., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Nixon Theatre, Seventh Avenue [Pittsburgh] (Q27327) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +657 Nixon Theatre, Seventh Avenue [Pittsburgh] (Q27327) Created claim: Note (P44): Built by Benjamin H. Marshall for Samuel F. Nixon. Opened 7 Dec 1903. Closed 30 Apr 1950. Demolished June 1950 in favour of the Alcoa Building. - [Note: The Victoria Theatre at 956 Liberty Avenue operated as the new Nixon Theatre from 1950 until its demolition in 1975.], #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Kresge Theatre [Pittsburgh] (Q27410) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +585 Kresge Theatre [Pittsburgh] (Q27410) Created claim: Note (P44): Built as Little Theatre of Carnegie Technical Schools. Now operated as Kresge Theatre by the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, a college of Carnegie Mellon University. Used for chamber concerts., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Olympic Theatre [Philadelphia, US] (Q33493) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +578 Olympic Theatre [Philadelphia, US] (Q33493) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1809 by William Strickland as The Olympic. Various renovations. 1054 seats. The building contains a main theatre hall and two studio theatres. Used by the Walnut Street Theatre Company., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Chestnut Street Theatre [Philadelphia, US] (Q26911) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +785 Chestnut Street Theatre [Philadelphia, US] (Q26911) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1791-1805 after Thomas Greenway's plans for the Theatre Royal in Bath (England). Opened 1793. Used by Thomas Wignell's theatre company. Destroyed by a fire in 1820. - [In 1822, a second Chestnut Street Theatre was opened at the same site. Destroyed by fire in 1856. In 1862, a third Chestnut Street Theatre was opened at another site in Chestnut Street. Closed 1913, subsequently demolished.], #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 President Theatre [Saint Paul] (Q27277) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +595 President Theatre [Saint Paul] (Q27277) Created claim: Note (P44): Vaudeville theatre, opened 1906 as Orpheum Theatre. 1926 renamed as President Theatre and used as a drama theatre. From 1930, used as a cinema. Closed 1938. Subsequently demolished in favour of a parking lot., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Opera Philadelphia [Philadelphia] (Q26545) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +1,002 Opera Philadelphia [Philadelphia] (Q26545) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1908 by William H. McElfatrick for Oscar Hammerstein. Opened 17 Nov 1908 as Philadelphia Opera House with George Bizet's opera Carmen. Over 4000 seats. 1910 sold to the New York Metropolitan Opera, re-opened as Metropolitan Opera House. Used by the Metropolitan Opera and various other opera companies. From 1920, also used as a cinema. Closed 1934. Later used as a cinema, then a ballroom, a sports venue, mechanic training center and a churc... Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Academy of Music [Philadelphia] (Q26470) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +584 Academy of Music [Philadelphia] (Q26470) Created claim: Note (P44): Concert hall and opera house, built 1855-1857 by Napoleon LeBruin. Opened 1857. 2509 seats. Home to the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1900 to 2001. Home to Pennsylvania Ballet and Opera Philadelphia., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 French Opera House [New Orleans, US] (Q25821) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +515 French Opera House [New Orleans, US] (Q25821) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1859 by James Gallier jr. Used for opera performances, including many American premieres. Destroyed by fire on 4 Dec 1919., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts [Minneapolis] (Q25985) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +1,046 Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts [Minneapolis] (Q25985) Created claim: Note (P44): Built by William A. Swasey for Shubert Brothers. Opened 28 Aug 1910 as Sam S. Shubert Theatre. In the 1930s renamed Alvin Theatre, used for live theatre, films and strip shows. 1957 rebuilding, re-opened as a cinema named Academy Theatre. Closed 1983. Feb 1999 translocation of the historic theatre (without the stage house) a block away next to Hennepin Center for the Arts. Subsequently restorations and rebuildings (removing the second balcony),... Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 7th Street Theatre [Minneapolis] (Q27275) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +657 7th Street Theatre [Minneapolis] (Q27275) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1904 by Kees & Colburn for the Orpheum Circuit. Opened 22 Oct 1904 as Orpheum Theatre. Ca. 1490 seats. 1922 renamed 7th Sreet Theatre (after the new Hennepin Theatre was renamed Orpheum Theatre), subsequently used as a cinema. Closed 1940. Subsequently demolished., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Wayside Theatre [Middletown] (Q27311) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +496 Wayside Theatre [Middletown] (Q27311) Created claim: Note (P44): Opened 1946 as Middleton Movie Theatre. From 1962 used as a live theatre, named Wayside Theatre. Closed 2013., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Willis Wood Theater [Kansas City] (Q27281) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +635 Willis Wood Theater [Kansas City] (Q27281) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1902 by Louis Curtiss for Colonel Willis Wood. Opened 25 Aug 1902. From the 1910s, also used as a cinema. Destroyed by a fire in January 1917. Remains demolished 1918 in favour of the Kansas City Athletic Club building (now Mark Twain Tower)., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Orpheum Theater [Kansas City] (Q27280) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +704 Orpheum Theater [Kansas City] (Q27280) Created claim: Note (P44): Vaudeville theatre and cinema, opened 26 Dec 1914 as New Orpheum Theatre (the former Orpheum Theatre at another site was then closed and demolished in 1922). In the 1930s first used as a live theatre, then as a cinema from 1938, and as a live theatre again in the 1950s. Demolished 1962 in favour of a hotel building., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Loews Midland Theatre [Kansas City] (Q12296) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +786 Loews Midland Theatre [Kansas City] (Q12296) Created claim: Note (P44): Theatre and cinema, built 1927 by Thomas W. Lamb for the Loew's Inc. cinema chain. Opened 27 Oct 1927 as Loew's Midland Theatre. Originally 4100 seats. Closed 1961 and converted into a bowling alley. 1962 re-opened as a cinema named Saxon Theatre. Closed 1962. Re-opened 1965 as Midland Theatre. 2006-2008 major renovations. 2016 renamed Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland after a corporate sponsor., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Palace Theatre [Fort Worth] (Q27186) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +628 Palace Theatre [Fort Worth] (Q27186) Created claim: Note (P44): Opened 21 Sep 1908 as Byers Opera House. Later used as a cinema and named Byers Theatre. 1919 rebuilding by Raphael A. Nicolais, reopened 19 Oct 1919 as Palace Theatre. 1468 seats. Closed 1974 and converted into a jazz club. Demolished 1977., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Rorick s Glen Theatre [Elmira] (Q27407) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +456 Rorick s Glen Theatre [Elmira] (Q27407) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1904 at the site of a former theatre. Destroyed by fire in 1932., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Five Flags Center [Dubuque] (Q25758) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +690 Five Flags Center [Dubuque] (Q25758) Created claim: Note (P44): Cinema and vaudeville theatre, built 1910 by Rapp & Rapp on the site of a previous theatre. Opened 1910 as Majestic Theatre. Later renamed Spensley Orpheum Theatre, RKO Orpheum Theatre and Five Flags Theater. 1400 seats. Operated as part of the Five Flags Center. Home to the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra., #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +355 Opera House [Detroit] (Q12507) Added qualifier: Source (P63): CARTHALIA (Q495), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1757591661939 current Tag: Purkii [1.0]
- 13:30, 11 September 2025 diff hist +827 Opera House [Detroit] (Q12507) Created claim: Note (P44): Built 1921 as a cinema and vaudeville theatre by C. Howard Crane. Opened 12 Jan 1922 as Capitol Theatre. 1929 renamed Paramount Theatre, 1934 renamed Broadway-Capitol Theatre, 1960 renamed Grand Circus Theatre. Closed 1978. Used as a music venue in the early 1980s. Closed 1985. 1989- major renovation and rebuilding. Re-opened as Detroit Opera House. Originally ca. 3500 seats, currently ca. 2700 seats. Home to the Michigan Opera Theatre., #quicks... Tag: Purkii [1.0]